Swing Feel
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The following songs use the rhythmic device known as swing, where the first eighth note in a beat is roughly twice as long as the second, or the first sixteenth note in an eighth note is roughly twice as long as the second.
Eighth Note Swing[edit]
- 1999
- Alienation's For The Rich
- Anaheim
- Arkansas
- Au Contraire
- Asbury Park
- Bed, Bed, Bed
- Cage & Aquarium
- Dinner Bell
- Dog
- Elephants
- Extra Savoir-Faire
- Garbage In
- Hot Cha
- If I Wasn't Shy
- In The Dead Mall
- Lie Still, Little Bottle
- Lines Upon A Tranquil Brow
- Maybe I Know
- Nouns
- Re-PETE Offender
- Road Movie To Berlin
- Rolling O
- Say Nice Things About Detroit
- Science Is Real
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective
- She's Actual Size
- Shoehorn With Teeth
- Space Suit
- Spiraling Shape (Only the first section. After that, it's all straight eighths.)
- Stalk Of Wheat
- Subliminal
- Telescope
- The Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)
- The Day
- This Is Only Going To Go One Way
- Turn Around
- What The Cat Dragged In
- Where Do They Make Balloons?
- You're Watching...
Sixteenth Note Swing[edit]
- 1999
- Asbury Park
- Back In Los Angeles
- Damn Good Times
- Dirt Bike
- Let Me Tell You About My Operation
- Replicant
- Reprehensible
- Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes
- You'll Miss Me
- Your Racist Friend
Honorable Mentions[edit]
- Swing Is A Word
- We've Got A World That Swings
- A surprising amount of songs that involve swinging: Be Patient, Bangs, Cellar Door, Graveyard, How Now Dark Cloud?, Ondine, She's Actual Size (New Live Version), Sleepwalkers, So To Be One Of Us, (She Was A) Hotel Detective, What Bothers The Spaceman?, You Probably Get That A Lot